OpenID ≻ Plastic ID Cards

Everyone have got a large stack of plastic cards who only purpose is to identify you to one or another digital system. You have to have a separate card for each of your banks, a library card, an identity card, a bus card, a gym card, … Let us just say there is a lot of them. But why can we not have the convince of OpenID—the open source decentralised authentication framework—conveyed to out plastic cards as well as our web passwords? At least something similar.

Imagine just having one plastic card instead of ten. Would it not be much more convenient? I think so. And giving it some more though we already have everything that is needed to make such a system! I am not suggesting using OpenID as it is. But rather…trow some more security at it and then us it as a decentralised authentication framewok!

I do believe banks, libraries, and even gyms could come up with one card that identifies you as a user on a decentralised server, then—over a secure connection—the data from the shop or library you are in could be sent to a centralised server were your bank accounc could be carded, or your bonus points recorded, or whatever.

Sounds like a dream? It is at least my dream. I hope this one comes true within a decade.

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